Kombucha: preparation and care

The tea mushroom is not an ordinary mushroom, as it does not grow in the forest, and on the tree too. Its habitat is a three-liter can. At least, this dish is most often used for its cultivation. It is worth noting that this is not just for fun, but because the tea mushroom is a wonderful healer. People say that there is no such disease that it could not cure. We will not think so globally, but still try to grow a mushroom. The preparation of a place for his dwelling is the most crucial moment. Let's start in order.

How to make a tea mushroom

In order to grow the home of a wonderful healer, you need to think about where to get the tea mushroom. Preparing it at home is easy. It is enough to forget the brewed tea in a cup for several days, and then remove the formed film from it. This is the tea mushroom. If your friends already live, you can ask to give you a small piece of cultivation. Usually, for these purposes, a healthy, without damage, plate is removed.

How to make a tea mushroom, you know, now you need to start creating optimal conditions for his life.

• Take a three-liter jar and pour it over with boiling water.
• Separately boil about 2 liters of water, fall asleep in it tea brew (you can both black and green tea). How much to take tea leaves? Approximately 2 tablespoons. For 2 liters of water.
• When tea is infused and cooled, filter it through gauze to make it perfectly clean, even without small particles of tea leaves.
• To make our mushroom grow faster, add sugar to the tea. It needs so much to get a sweetish tea, but, notice, not very sweet.
• Make sure that the sugar is dissolved completely.
• Now we pour the tea into the jar and lower our mushroom into it.
• On the neck of the jar we put gauze, folded in several layers.
• Just do not close the jar, as for the growth of the tea fungus, oxygen is needed.

That's all, we planted a tea mushroom. Preparing the conditions for his residence takes some time, but it's worth it. It is not enough to know how to grow a tea mushroom, you need to learn how to take care of it.

How to care for a tea mushroom

While your bank lives a small mushroom, but it's temporary. Some time will pass, and it will begin to increase in size due to the formation of new plates. But that your mushroom does not die, you need to constantly look after it. And, it must be noted, he is quite demanding to leave. Pay attention to the following recommendations:

• The tea solution must be changed periodically to a new one. This is done about once every five days. Saturated with useful substances, you drain the can from the can, and replace it with freshly prepared.
• When you change the solution, arrange a "bath" mushroom. To do this, remove it from the jar and wash it in pre-cooled to room temperature boiled water.
• In a timely manner, change the solution so that your fungus grows healthy.
• Do not put a jar of mushrooms on the window, but be sure to keep it in a warm place. Low temperatures adversely affect its growth.
• Never pour the sugar directly into a jar of mushrooms. In this case, he can get a severe burn.
• Do not fill the mushroom with a hot solution, as in the case of sugar, burns can not be avoided.

How to drink a tea mushroom

A tea mushroom, the preparation of which you already know, should be drunk after each meal, but only after three hours. In order to saturate your body with useful substances, as well as feel lightness throughout the body, the tea mushroom should be drunk at least three times a day.

And the last thing: if your fungus grows very large, you can share it with your friends and relatives. If they do not want to have such an unusual friend at home, do not throw out the mushroom, but best dig or burn. At least, so advise to do folk healers.